Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] old age pensioners.4 It also appears to be the case that both 3 The press reported that the brother of Danczuk’s ex-partner – who works as a security guard in the Manchester area – was being charged with historical sex offences dating back twenty-five years. See The Daily Mirror and The Independent 28 October […]

The Brexit impasse

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Scottish secession from the UK and therefore of the break-up of the country, a process likely to result in the loss of our seat on the UN Security Council. The UK would be left facing profound economic and diplomatic isolation, depriving it of influence over a whole range of pressing international questions including the […]

DEADLY BETRAYAL: The Truth About Why the United States Invaded Iraq by Dennis Fritz

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] decade of the 21st century. In part this was motivated by the notion of ‘credibility’ For example, on July 27, 2001, Rumsfeld sent a memo to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice titled ‘Iraq.’ The memo stated that ‘A major success in Iraq would enhance U.S. credibility and influence throughout the region. If Saddam’s regime […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] his host, Evgeny, by giving him a peerage – making According to some people, there were serious concerns about Johnson’s relationship with the Lebedevs within the British security establishment. See Otto English, ‘Spooking the Spooks: Media Complicity and Security Concerns over Lebedev and Johnson’, Byline Times 25 October 2019 at or . 13 him, […]

Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] The wave of unrest that had engulfed President Lyndon Johnson was confronted by Richard Nixon when he won the presidential election in 1968. Leonard quotes Nixon’s domestic security adviser, John Ehrlichman, on how they determined to deal with the challenges they faced. The administration identified two domestic enemies: The Guardian 1 September 2022 at […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] through which future funding could be channelled and deniability ensured. A specific step in enabling this course of action to be adopted came in 1949 with National Security Council Directive 10/2. This empowered the CIA to spend money on whatever or whomever it felt would be beneficial to US interests without having to explain […]

Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the administration a completely free hand in the destruction of America’s enemies. JSOC was, at this time, ‘the most closely guarded secret force in the US national security apparatus’. It only went public after the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Scahill explores JSOC’s record during the occupation of Iraq. Here the US Army found […]

Spandau blood

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] There is no mention of this in the description of Dr Pittman’s routine health check. Any attempt to take blood would not have passed muster with prison security and the warders. The discovery of any attempt to take No. 7’s blood in such a fashion would have risked both a criminal prosecution and an […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] organization, no one will recognize it, no one will give it status at the , no one will let it put forth a resolution at the U.N. Security Council.49 A third Israeli official, Brigadier General Yitzhak Segev – who, during part of the 1980s, was the Israeli military governor of the Gaza Strip – […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] organization, no one will recognize it, no one will give it status at the , no one will let it put forth a resolution at the U.N. Security Council.31 A third Israeli official, Brigadier General Yitzhak Segev – who, during part of the 1980s, was the Israeli military governor of the Gaza Strip – […]

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